Title: Help With Post Query – identify all posts with no tags
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help With Post Query – identify all posts with no tags

 *  Resolved [kraftomatic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kraftomatic/)
 * (@kraftomatic)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-post-query/)
 * Hello All,
 * I’m looking for help with a query. I’m trying to select posts that do not have
   any “tag” values. I would assume checking for any tagged value of null specifically
   would work. The query format would be something like this initially:
 *     ```
       $querystr = "
           SELECT wposts.*
           FROM $wpdb->posts wposts, $wpdb->postmeta wpostmeta
           WHERE wposts.ID = wpostmeta.post_id
           AND wpostmeta.meta_key = 'tag'
           AND wpostmeta.meta_value = 'email'
           AND wposts.post_status = 'publish'
           AND wposts.post_type = 'post'
           AND wposts.post_date < NOW()
           ORDER BY wposts.post_date DESC
        ";
       ```
   
 * I’m guessing it would be something similar to “AND wpostmeta.meta_key = ‘tag’“,
   but I can’t find the exact syntax.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-post-query/#post-1273957)
 * Not exactly the same thing, but davegonebananas’ response should help figure 
   it out:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/250451?replies=6#post-1007921](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/250451?replies=6#post-1007921)
 *  Thread Starter [kraftomatic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kraftomatic/)
 * (@kraftomatic)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-post-query/#post-1273964)
 * Thanks Michael.

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-post-query/#post-1273964)
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